Well, Well Head Gear and Housing About 35 Metres North West of Raffin Green Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Well.
Well, Well Head Gear and Housing About 35 Metres North West of Raffin Green Farm House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-pavement-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Well
- OS grid reference
- TL 274 194
- Coordinates
- 51.85894, -0.15114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a well head gear and housing built in the mid to late 19th century, located about 35 meters northwest of Raffin Green Farm House. It features an iron and timber mechanism and a brick-lined circular well shaft that supports an open timber housing. The structure has a square frame made of four posts with paired cross timbers that support the winding gear. This gear is hand-operated by an outer wheel with an iron handle, which turns a lower axle fitted with a small cog wheel. This cog wheel engages with a larger cog wheel on the upper axle, which has a central iron-plated timber wheel over which a lifting cable passes. The gabled head is supported by angled struts and is covered with machine-made pantiles. Raffin Green Farmhouse itself is not listed.
Local climate
Well, Well Head Gear and Housing About 35 Metres North West of Raffin Green Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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